TED talks and Physical Therapy

The first TED talk that I watched was very ironic that I had watched it. Which is why I really liked it. The title of the TED talk I had watched was called the Mystery of Chronic Pain. On my second day of interning, Kristy(physical therapist) told me about chronic pain. My first thought of chronic pain was that it was an on going pain. Well it is on going pain but more of an excruciating pain. The pain that  Elliot Krane described on March 2011 at Long Beach California was the type of pain that was more than just a regular type of injury. He explained to us a patient of his who was a dancer. She had a small incident and sprained her left wrist. Her injury then soon progressed  to a severe pain, like being touched by a gentle feather felt as if she was being burned by a hot flame piercing her skin. This was known as a type of chronic pain. It was just like how Kristy told me about a patient who had the same situation but it was on their entire right side of their body. The patient grew to not even bare to look at their right side because they had so much pain just like Elliot’s patient. I thought this video was special because most people aren’t even aware of diseases of chronic pain. I don’t think people realize how lucky they are to have a healthy body and they need to appreciate what they have. I would recommend everyone to watch this video because we might have the chance of opening someones eyes to make them more aware of different diseases and the people who are diagnosed with them.